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ment of the stomach and bowels. The decoction of cinchona or 

 Peruvian hai'Jc^ and the infusion of gentian may be given about an 

 hour before feeding, &c. Sulphate of iron is the best tonic, and 

 should be given in the food in drachm doses. 



9. Antiseptics. — Gondifs fluid — the red solution of the perman- 

 ganate of potash — in water alone, or water slightly acidulated willi 

 sulphuric acid; two ounces of the fluid every two hours diminished 

 the fdetor of the excrement. Small doses of carbolic acid^ sesqui- 

 chloride of iron, or of chloritie icater, produce similar effects. 



10. Mineral acids. — Ili/drochloric {formerly known as muriatic-) 

 acid, and sulphuric acid, more frequently have been vaunted as spe- 

 cifics. JVitro-muriatic acid is serviceable in the convalescent stage. 



Mr. Priestman (whom we may remember as the veterinary 

 surgeon first consulted by Mrs. Nichols) has suggested a mode 

 of treatment which, according to the statement made by Dr. 

 Hayes, and found in Sequel to First Eeport, page 13, has 

 proved most successful. 



The same hygienic conditions and mode of diet as commended by 

 Smart are preserved ; half-ounce doses of carbonate of ammonia and 

 nitre are given night and morning in cold water, as a prophylactic, and 

 when symptoms of the Pest appear, two ounces of chloric ether are given 

 in gruel three times daily, and when they abate, two ounces of a mixture 

 consisting of equal parts of tincture of gentian, tincture of ginger, 

 and aromatic spirit of ammonia are given night and morning. 



A clialyheate remedy for the Pest, based upon a large 

 experience in Poland, was brought to the knowledge of the 

 Eoyal Commissioners through a dispatch from Major Mans- 

 field, the Gonsul-General at Warsaw, to the British Secretary 

 for Foreign Affairs. 



On a Polish farm there existed a chalybeate spring, and 

 the cattle drinking of it 



"were either but slightly affected or recovered after drinking pro- 

 fusely of it, while on the adjoining farms the beasts died in large 

 numbers. It was then found that by putting old iron into the cattle 

 troughs, so as to produce a highly chalybeate water, the same result 

 ensued, and the cattle recovered." 



Hence, doubtless, has followed the suggestion of pour- 

 ing into the drinking trough for cattle a little sulphur and 



